Nicoletto Giganti
Italian fencer
Nicoletto Giganti was a 17th-century Italian rapier fencing master. The frontispiece of his 1606 work names him as “Nicoletto Giganti, Venetian”, although evidence suggests he or his family, moved to Venice from the town of Fossombrone, in Le Marche, Central Italy.
Little is known of Giganti’s life, but in the dedication to his 1606 treatise, he counts 27 years of professional experience, whereas the Giganti family of Fossombrone were lesser nobility, long in the military service of Venice. He is a famous representative of the Venetian school of fencing.
His 1606 work was reprinted in Italian in 1628, and in French and German parallel translation in 1619, 1622, and 1644.
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